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ninju 15 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Valley of Webhooks

> Ask with a cursor and you resume where you left off.

How does the provider know what event the cursor you provided refers to?

Sounds like external state that needs to be managed ("cursor" -> timestamp)

weli 15 days ago [–]

That is completely fine. In the spec cursors just need to be lexicographically comparable. They could easily be timestamps if the provider chooses to. In many of my example they are just alphanumeric dictionaries.

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